Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force RPG Mods

[Dangelus]

Played some of these a while back, the maps seem to be coming on leaps and bounds!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40d-SpClc5Q

[Jen]

Who is working on this game? I've never heard of any other Star Trek MMOs other than Star Trek Online. Looks cool!

[Rico]

I think these are just some fan made modifications to the old Voyager "Elite Force" game.  Many "shooter" type games and others live on in the fan community and they create elaborate modifications to them.  Pretty neat! 

[billybob476]

Though that's one thing that no company (that I know of) has implemented yet. A full first-person MMO with shooter-type combat.

That could be an interesting angle.

[Rico]

Didn't "Tabula Rasa" try to do that?

http://tabularasa.wikia.com/wiki/Tabula_Rasa

[billybob476]

Heh, seems as though it did. Never played it but it seems like it'd be a cool mechanic. As far as I know Tablua Rasa had other issues which hurt it.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Yeah, I have Star Trek Bridge Commander, and they have done lots of modifications to that game so that you can play any and all Star Trek, Star Wars or other Sci-Fi Ships. 

This is just similar work.  Its pretty cool what people can do to these games. 

King

[Dangelus]

Yeah they are great fun. The RPG mod for elite force has hundreds of maps and skins so you can pretty much play any era you want. You can play in 3rd person style too so you can interact with others and see your own character. Since elite force can be picked up pretty cheaply and is old enough to run on modest hardware, most anyone can play it.

[Jen]

Is this a PC game? Will it run on Vista/laptop? :)

[billybob476]

Elite force is pretty old, it should run no problem.

Minimum System Requirements:
· Windows® 95, 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0 SP5, or Windows 2000 with 100% compatible computer system
· 3-D Hardware Accelerator with full OpenGL® Support
· Pentium 233 MHz MMX® Processor and 8 MB Video Card
or Pentium II 266 MHz MMX® Processor with 4 MB Video Card
or AMD® 350 MHz K6®-2 Processor with 4 MB Video Card
· 64 MB RAM Required
· Quad-Speed CD-ROM drive (600 K/Sec Sustained Transfer Rate)
· DirectX 7.0a or 100% compatible drivers
· Joystick and mouse supported
· Supports the following 3D accelerator cards:
All 3Dfx Chips (except Voodoo Rush)
ATI Rage Pro* & Rage 128
ATI Rage MAXX
S3 Savage 4
S3 Savage 3
Savage 2000
nVIDIA Riva 128* and 128ZX
nVIDIA TNT and TNT2
nVIDIA GeForce, and GeForce2 and GeForce 256
Matrox G400
Intel i740
* Requires the low end (simple) shaders (see Video Options below).

Recommended System Requirements:
·  Windows® 95, 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0 SP5, or Windows 2000 with 100% compatible computer system
·  3-D Hardware Accelerator with full OpenGL® Support
·  Pentium II 300 MHz MMX® Processor (or greater) with 16 MB Video Card
·  64 MB RAM (or greater)
·  Quad-Speed CD-ROM drive (600 K/Sec Sustained Transfer Rate)
·  DirectX 7.1 or 100% compatible drivers
·  Three-button wheel mouse

[Feathers]

Hey, I didn't know about any of this! I must dig out my old Elite Force CDs and try and get them running on the new laptop.

Where do all these mods live?

[Dangelus]

If anyone wants to try it out all the info on the RPG mod can be found here:

http://www.rpg-x.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

another good source for info for this and other Trek games is here:

http://www.hailingfrequency.co.uk/boards/

[billybob476]

Not sure if Vista might have some issues since the game was designed for Win95/98.

[Jen]

Not sure if Vista might have some issues since the game was designed for Win95/98.

Yeah, I was worried about that... :(

[Dangelus]

Not sure if Vista might have some issues since the game was designed for Win95/98.

Yeah, I was worried about that... :(

I don't think Elite Force 1 has a problem with Vista Jen. There have been reports of it working really well.